San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-06-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Frcm Our Regular Correspondent

From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 5th 1887.
Laborers are at work in one of the
Court yards of the Treasury building
excavating for the new vault, for
which Congress appropriated ST.
$40. This will be the largest single
money vault known. It is to be
large enough to hold one hundred
million silver dollars, and it's full
capacity will doubtless be tested by
the constant accumulation from an
annual production of not less than
twenty four millions of dollars.
The structure is to be entirely I'M
foreground; nothing is to appear on
the surface to indicate the depository
of so much wealth. The vault will be
lined with an iron case, and will be
divided into sixteen compartments
separated by iron lattice partitions.
There are to be no dark corners in
this building the open lattice work
is adapted SO that the eye can range
through all the compartments at one
glance. The entrance will be through
the SUI basement of the Treasury
building, which is at all times thor
oughly guarded, and dozen different
men will be required to open the
vault, several series of unlocking be-
ing necessary, and one person will
only have the secret of one combina-
ton lock. All the known checks and
and securities will be applied, and by
means of clockwork and electricity
there will be some of the locks which
will open at q certain hours of the
day only to the Treasurer of the
United States.
The silver dollars in their new
habitation will be piled up in canvass
bags holding $1,000 each, one on top
of the other. rs is now done in the
existing vaults.
A prominent politician and member
of Congress now in the city, says that
for zine months in the year Wash
ington is tho prettiest and pleasantest
place in the country, and only needs
better hotel Accommodations and a
large hall suitable for Conventions, to
make it the very place for the next
and succeeding National Conventions.
As the physical beauties of Wash
ington are already beginning to be
appreciated by the country, glance
at the efforts being made in the direc-
ton of moral cleanliness and beauty
in the Nations Capital would not be
amiss.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union has become a power in
the land, and by means of their
steady adherence to well-devised plans
of action, and of persistence strik-
ingly Illustrative of their courage in
attempts to ameliorate the condition
of their fellow-beings, the women of
this city have at last succeeded in
entirely closing the bar-room here on
Sunday, not only in name but in fact.
They are also now engaged in an
cndeavor to suppress the exhibition
of questionable pictures used in adj
vertisIng. which while they attract
the eve and thus serve their purpose,
also exert a more baleful influence in
leading the imagination of our youth
into evil channels.
4 Probation Agency. for the bene-
fit Of first offenders, has been recent
ly established. whereby unfortunate
youth who have been brought before
the Police Court may be afforded an
opportunity Of bettering themselves.
TINS withol ling from them the stigma
q conv.st5on u crime. and sentsnce
a. association with old criminals, lni
endeavoI. ng 10 procure horesi en-
plovruert for those On reed
A Monen's Refn-e > 10 snrcesSful
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